The Quarterly Review, Volume 50William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1834 |
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... instance , the variety and formation of God's creatures in the animal , vegetable , and mineral kingdoms ; the effect of digestion , and thereby of conversion ; the construc- tion of the hand of man , and an infinite variety of other ...
... instance , the variety and formation of God's creatures in the animal , vegetable , and mineral kingdoms ; the effect of digestion , and thereby of conversion ; the construc- tion of the hand of man , and an infinite variety of other ...
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... instance- the pri- meval mind that emanated all this gracefulness , ' ( vol . i . p . 190 :) the corporeal appetites were furnished in order to supplement the defects of human prudence , ' ( ib . p . 194 , ) a phrase frequently to be ...
... instance- the pri- meval mind that emanated all this gracefulness , ' ( vol . i . p . 190 :) the corporeal appetites were furnished in order to supplement the defects of human prudence , ' ( ib . p . 194 , ) a phrase frequently to be ...
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... instance in Orion , which is marked in South and Herschel's catalogue as containing two distinct sets of stars , each set triple , appears in Mr. Barlow's fluid- refracting telescope , as composed of two quadruple sets , with two very ...
... instance in Orion , which is marked in South and Herschel's catalogue as containing two distinct sets of stars , each set triple , appears in Mr. Barlow's fluid- refracting telescope , as composed of two quadruple sets , with two very ...
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... instances , probably , a thousand years to reach our globe , although light is known to travel at the rate of one hundred and ninety - two thousand miles in a second . Sirius , the brightest , because perhaps the nearest to us of those ...
... instances , probably , a thousand years to reach our globe , although light is known to travel at the rate of one hundred and ninety - two thousand miles in a second . Sirius , the brightest , because perhaps the nearest to us of those ...
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... instances , it is equally certain that there is no mistake in the observation or entry , and that the star has really been observed , and as really has disappeared from the heavens . ' -Treatise on Astronomy , p . 384 . The existence ...
... instances , it is equally certain that there is no mistake in the observation or entry , and that the star has really been observed , and as really has disappeared from the heavens . ' -Treatise on Astronomy , p . 384 . The existence ...
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